Everything about Lexicalization

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: LexicalizationA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Word learning and lexicalization in a second language: Evidence from the Prime lexicality effect in masked form primingInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Morphological Structure, Lexical Representation and Lexical AccessThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Learning to express motion events in English and Korean: The influence of language-specific lexicalization patternsCited 447 times
5. Go sideways: Lemma (psycholinguistics)A closely related topic
6. Go sideways: LexiconA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Learning to express motion events in English and Korean: The influence of language-specific lexicalization patterns

  Soonja Choi, Melissa Bowerman · 1991 · Cognition · 447 citations

• The lexicalization process in sentence production and naming: indirect election of words

  G Kempen · 1983 · Cognition · 255 citations

• How do highly proficient bilinguals control their lexicalization process? Inhibitory and language-specific selection mechanisms are both functional.

  Albert Costa, Mikel Santesteban, Iva Ivanova · 2006 · Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition · 225 citations

• Carrot-Eaters and Creature-Believers: The Effects of Lexicalization on Children's Inferences About Social Categories

  Susan A. Gelman, Gail D. Heyman · 1999 · Psychological Science · 221 citations

• The Effects of Repetition and L1 Lexicalization on Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition

  Chuntien Chen, John Truscott · 2010 · Applied Linguistics · 124 citations

• Speaking and remembering in one or two languages: bilingual vs. monolingual lexicalization and memory for motion events

  Luna Filipović · 2011 · International Journal of Bilingualism · 99 citations

• American Sign Language compound formation processes, lexicalization, and phonological remnants

  Scott K. Liddell, Robert E. Johnson · 1986 · Natural Language and Linguistic Theory · 97 citations

• Richness of information about novel words influences how episodic and semantic memory networks interact during lexicalization

  Atsuko Takashima, Iske Bakker, Janet G. van Hell · 2014 · NeuroImage · 94 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Word learning and lexicalization in a second language: Evidence from the Prime lexicality effect in masked form priming

  Shusaku Kida, Joe Barcroft, Mitchell Sommers · 2022 · Memory & Cognition · 9 citations

• Strategic lexicalization in courtroom discourse: A corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis

  Ayman Khafaga · 2023 · Cogent Arts & Humanities · 9 citations

• Lexicalization in the developing parser

  Aaron Steven White, Jeffrey Lidz · 2022 · Glossa Psycholinguistics · 8 citations

• Lexicalization and Social Meaning of the Italian Subjunctive

  Salvio Digesto · 2022 · Cadernos de Linguística · 6 citations

• Grammaticalization, lexicalization, and pragmaticalization: Russian constructions with the preposition <em>PO</em>

  Ekaterina N. Vinogradova · 2023 · Voprosy Jazykoznanija · 6 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• 📕Morphological Structure, Lexical Representation and Lexical AccessDominiek Sandra, Marcus Taft · 1994
• Lexical-functional syntaxJoan Bresnan · 2001
• Cyclic and lexical phonologyJerzy Rubach · 1984
• Lectures on contemporary syntactic theoriesPeter Sells · 1985
• 📕Lexical-Functional GrammarKersti Börjars, Rachel Nordlinger · 2019
• Lexical functional grammarMary Dalrymple · 2001
• 📕Typological Approach to Grammaticalization and LexicalizationJanet Zhiqun Xing · 2020
• Theorie und Praxis des LexikonsGerhard Heyer, Frank Beckmann · 1993

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